Project X Elluna
Latrisha Adan
The Ex Libris Users of North America (ELUNA) is a not-for-profit educational group of users of library software products licensed by Ex Libris. ELUNA members include academic, public, governmental, and corporate libraries from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean.
Membership in ELUNA allows your institution to vote on product enhancement ballots and for Steering Committee members. Institutional and consortial memberships grant members a vote on ELUNA matters. You will have one vote on the enhancement ballots for each Ex Libris product you license, and you will be able to run for and vote for ELUNA Steering Committee seats. (Consortial ELUNA members have one vote per consortium membership. Individual institutions that are members of an ELUNA member consortium may chose to also join as an institutional member to have their own vote, should they chose to do so.)
Membership in ELUNA provides staff at member institutions a reduced registration fee at the ELUNA Annual Meeting. Conference attendees hear from Ex Libris management on strategic directions and see previews of upcoming releases. Members share expertise, discuss work flows, and demonstrate locally developed programs. Proceedings of the annual meeting are made available to members via the ELUNA Document Repository.
New for 2024: Membership in ELUNA provides staff at member institutions with free registration for all ELUNA learns sessions held in 2024 and beyond. Session attendees see peer presentations which highlight local expertise with system functions and tools, demonstrate workflows and local configuration, and provide updates on local projects.
Membership provides opportunities for professional development. Members can be elected to leadership roles on the Steering Committee and/or Product Working Groups. Members may be selected to participate in focus groups or working groups established by Ex Libris, ELUNA, or in conjunction with our sister organization, IGeLU, the International Group of Ex Libris Users.
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ELUNA is the international user community for Ex Libris customers in the Americas. ELUNA is the voice and advocate for institutions of all sizes and types of libraries, including academic, public, government and corporate entities, as well as library consortia. ELUNA members enjoy educational and networking benefits through listservs, webinars, regional meetings and the annual conference. Members also participate in collaborative testing, training, focus groups and many other customer-driven initiatives, all geared towards improving the products.
Machine translation is increasingly used by ITU staff and delegates to complement the work of professional human translators and expand the scope of content available in translation.
ITU Translate is a Neural Machine Translation (NMT) engine developed in-house and launched in September 2019 as a joint project between ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau and the Conferences & Publications department. The tool utilizes the Azure Custom Translation as a translation engine, exclusively fine-tuned on ITU data. This corpus includes the whole set of English to French/Spanish/Arabic/Chinese/Russian available bitexts. The ITU Translate ecosystem comprises the following services: segment translation, document translation, and website translation.
My name is Bonnie Natko and I collect vintage magazines. This is where you will find images curated from my collection, as well as the Periodically Vintage podcast, where I read articles verbatim as they appeared in print. Take a walk through pop culture with me!
As a Native New Yorker (third generation, born in Brooklyn, and raised in Queens), I have a true fondness for the love and history of my city. When flipping through my archives, I stumbled upon this pretty amazing fashion editorial on "Vanishing New York." Its kind of puzzling to me that there would be a fashion editorial documenting the demise of these places, with models smiling, happy for the "new" New York. Back then gentrification wasn't seen of as the way it is today - preservation and landmarks commissions were unheard of back then.
If you are a New Yorker, you may be familiar with the popular blog of the same name, which has been documenting places of recent memory that are shutting due to the mass gentrification that has been happening in our more recent time. The three areas profiled, the Third Avenue El, Luna Park, and Murray Hill have all transformed in their own way, a lot of it due to gentrification and real estate development in a rapidly changing city.
Due to rampant gentrification, real estate developers saw the noise of the El as an unattractive distraction, so they petitioned first for a reduction in service, but ultimately, for a complete shutdown. By the mid '50s, the Manhattan portion of the El was gone, and real estate values along the line increased, all the while clogging up the Lexington Avenue line underground, and with all those new residents, adequate service to the East Side wouldn't return until the long proposed Second Avenue would open...in 2016.
In Coney Island, Luna Park was a premiere amusement park that dazzled with its lights. Opened in 1903, the park was a success, but being that Coney Island was a major seaside resort town, there was plenty of competition, with many other amusement parks and attractions competing in the area. The Great Depression had put the park on some tough times, taking it into bankruptcy. After a series of fires and a legal battle plagued the park, the land was sold for development into a Mitchell Lama housing development to keep the Luna Park name, which is where my mother grew up and spent her childhood and teen years in the 1950s and '60s. In 2010, a new amusement park opened under the Luna Park name to preserve the legacy...on the old Astroland site.
The Murray Park Hotel was right at the foot of Grand Central Station, at Park Avenue, occupying the entire block between 40th and 41st Streets. The hotel was the only in the country to offer both American and European service, and was known for luxury...and its own series of tragedies throughout its history which plagued the hotel. After a series of new owners and management changes, the hotel was razed in 1947 to make way for a 36-story office building.
In the coming months, the shim-sham elegance of Luna Park's amusement palaces will be replaced by a modern housing project for veterans. Joan views the site in a black wool jersey dress with a bare camisole top and shoestring straps, $14.95, covered for street wear by a wine-white wool jacket, $8.95. By Henry Rosenfeld. The felt cloche by Del Monte, about $8. All at Russeks, New York; Lamson, Toledo. Dawnelle gloves.
Another landmark to go is the carmine-plushed, white-marbled Murray Hill Hotel, hub of the Edwardian social whirl and a haunt of Mark Twain and Diamond Jim Brady. At the foot of the grand staircase in the old lobby, Joan wears a new square-necked top, $8.95, and skirt with draped pockets, $8.95. Both, Marshall Coleman in Princeton Knitting Mills wool jersey, Best. For glitter, Lisner's pin and bracelet.
American pop sensation Elluna smoothly incorporates indie pop elements into her music to produce a distinctive and alluring sound. She effortlessly catches the essence of emotion with her soulful vocals and passionate lyrics, luring listeners into her musical universe.
Elluna distinguishes herself from the mainstream by bringing a feeling of sensitivity and depth to her songs while still incorporating the contagious melodies and catchy hooks that characterize the pop genre. Her intensely reflective music explores both particular situations and enduring concepts, enabling listeners to relate on a profoundly emotional level.
Elluna's music demonstrates her capacity to construct an intimate yet vast auditory environment. She expertly navigates the highs and lows of her songs, conveying a spectrum of emotions from joy to heartbreak with her rich, emotional voice.
Her music is a breath of fresh air in the pop music landscape, presenting a novel perspective while adhering to the genre's essential components. Every note Elluna sings demonstrates her commitment to her art, and her enthusiasm for music comes out in her performances.
Elluna is unquestionably a rising star in the pop and indie pop music industries thanks to her evident talent and fascinating persona. She stands out among her colleagues for her ability to engage listeners on a profound and intimate level, and everyone who has the pleasure of listening to her music is changed by it. As she continues to cause a stir in the music industry, keep an eye out for this amazing musician.
Elluna, a Pop and Indie Pop musician from the US, has become well-known thanks to a number of fascinating songs. She has a number of popular tracks, including "Human Being," "Trapped," and "Runnin - Cyrus Gold Remix." Each song displays Elluna's distinctive sound and is well-liked by people all over the world. The songs "Clockwork" and "Close" show off her skill at writing catchy melodies and moving lyrics. Elluna has generated a buzz with her music that has people anticipating her upcoming release.
Elluna's repertoire also contains the songs "Trapped - FRST Remix," "Runnin'," and "Trapped (Cinematic Remix)." These songs' memorable melodies and universal themes continue to enthrall listeners. The final two songs in her collection, "Lucky Me" and "Love Is Here," highlight her artistic range and further establish her standing in the Pop and Indie Pop music scenes.
Listeners connect with Elluna's music because of its openness and introspectiveness. She is able to connect with a variety of audiences thanks to her ability to blend entrancing melodies with moving lyrics. Elluna provides a musical experience that is both relevant and emotionally engrossing by examining topics of love, self-discovery, and the human experience.
Elluna has cemented her position as a rising star in the Pop and Indie Pop music genres with her tremendous catalog of hit songs. She has a devoted following because to her talent for writing tunes that are both ear-catching and emotionally impactful. Elluna is certain to further establish herself as a force to be reckoned with in the music industry as she continues to produce new tracks.